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Here are some lectures, seminars and talks that may be of interest. The links reach further information on each presentation.

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13-05-2025 14:00:00

Quantifying individuality in neural circuit representations

Series: Computational Neuroscience
Speaker: Alex Williams (NYU)
Venue: CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building

14-05-2025 11:30:00

Masking: the fine line between fitting in and exhaustion

Series: ARClub Talks
Speaker: Andrew Whitehouse, SEND Network
Venue: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1

14-05-2025 15:00:00

Strategic Climate Change Communication: The Questions Few are Asking

Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Matthew Goldberg (Yale University)
Venue: Online

14-05-2025 15:00:00

Structural characterisation of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens for diagnostic and therapeutic applications

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Ivan Campeotto, Assistant Professor in Microbial Biotechnology
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

15-05-2025 14:00:00

Dissecting the neural control of skilled movements

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Katja Kornysheva (U. of Birmingham)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

15-05-2025 15:00:00

Comprehensive profiling of anaesthetised brain dynamics across phylogeny

Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Andrea Luppi
Venue: Online

15-05-2025 16:00:00

From nuclear swelling to chemoattractant production during tissue damage

Series: Foster Talks
Speaker: Dr Balázs Enyedi - Semmelweis University, Budapest
Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG

16-05-2025 13:00:00

Motility and matrix remodelling coupling drive early avian morphogenesis

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Lakshmi Balasubramaniam
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

16-05-2025 16:30:00

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London.
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

22-05-2025 14:00:00

A computational perspective on causal interventions in psychiatry

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Lilian Weber (U. of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

22-05-2025 16:00:00

It is not all in your genes - epigenetic regulation of human lung repair

Series: Foster Talks
Speaker: Dr Renata Jurkowska, Cardiff University
Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG

23-05-2025 13:00:00

Decoding the Notch Signal

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Sarah Bray
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

23-05-2025 16:30:00

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Ron Mangun,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place Davis, CA
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

28-05-2025 15:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge

30-05-2025 16:30:00

Animal Consciousness: Evidence Models and Clues

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Peter Godfrey Smith
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

02-06-2025 12:30:00

Brain Digital Twins for Neurological Disorders

Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr. Nitin Williams, Department of Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

05-06-2025 14:00:00

From anatomy to systems: Charting the language connectome

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Stephanie Forkel (Donders Institute)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

09-06-2025 16:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Matthew Hornsey (University of Queensland)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge

12-06-2025 14:00:00

Rethinking the sensory-deprived brain: How sensory deprivation improved our vision on brain function

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Emiliano Ricciardi (U. of Pisa
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

19-06-2025 14:00:00

Insights into mental health disorders from genetics and immunology

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Mary-Ellen Lynall (U. of Cambridge, Psychiatry Dept.)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

20-06-2025 13:00:00

Chromatin remodelling and cell fate plasticity during neuronal maturation

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Tony Southall
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

23-06-2025 12:30:00

How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing

Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Nick Souter, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

27-06-2025 13:00:00

TBA

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Vicky Metzis
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link